I practice Zen Buddhist techniques, which should not be confused with being a Zen Buddhist either by culture or by creed. I practice as a remedy to my thoroughly western mind. My experience of reality is routed thoroughly in my personal interpretation of cultural expectations. I need to stop my experience of reality in order to see with clarity.
— The Zen Humanist (via zenhumanism)
We are most alive when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
— Thornton Wilder (via shaktilover)
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time, the totality of reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson (via keepyourselfaware)
(Source: elige)
The problem is not pornography.
Death is the money shot.
There is something divine in silence. Almost as divine as the divinity itself. It’s comforting but also stressing.
When you connect with somebody else, you connect with yourself. Talking with another person, communicating with a mind outside of your own mind, puts you in touch with the part of your Self that is bigger than your mind, bigger than your thoughts.
— Neale Donald Walsch (via unconditionedconsciousness)
Truthful words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not truthful.
— Lao Tzu (via warzonelikerwanda)
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Meditation, simply defined, is a way of being aware. It is the happy marriage of doing and being. It lifts the fog of our ordinary lives to reveal what is hidden; it loosens the knot of self-centeredness and opens the heart; it moves us beyond mere concepts to allow for a direct experience of reality. Meditation embodies the way of awakening: both the path and its fruition. From one point of view, it is the means to awakening; from another, it is awakening itself.
— Lama Surya Das, “The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation” (via tricycle-tumbles)
